CVE-2026-71312CWE-78command-injection

CVE-2026-71312

High · published August 6, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to v1.75.0, rclone interpolates remote SFTP paths into PowerShell hash commands in backend/sftp/sftp.go, and quoteOrEscapeShellPath escapes only ASCII apostrophe even though PowerShell treats U+2018, U+2019, U+201A, and U+201B as single-quote delimiters, allowing an attacker-controlled filename to terminate the intended path literal and append PowerShell statements that execute as the victim SSH account when server-side hashing is invoked. This issue is fixed in v1.75.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.0 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00490 · 41.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Published
2026-08-06T01:16Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 AUG 20:37Z
    rclone: PowerShell Smart-Quote Filename Injection Enables SFTP Server-Side Command Execution
    cvelistv5